^{Portrait by Nick Prideaux}

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BYO (2023); Working in design and creative direction since 2010, Dale expanded their practice in 2016, exploring internal narratives for artistic inquiry. This broadened creative practice has allowed them to occupy many spaces for internal and external inquiries, from working with clients across branding and design, to collaborating with friends on wonderfully various projects, and developing an art practice that explores actual and virtual spaces to develop sculpture, installation, new-media and writing – central to this creative practice is the possibility of ideas, or conceptual Narratives, that begin by questioning Relationships, in both the lived/physical context as an adaptive method for creation and the possibilities of contextualisation through conceptual research, thinking and production.

They have an innate interest in how things change [forever], and through this process of change experience our layering of time, creating a curiosity that split into a million different pathways, leading to a million different interests, and a creative practices that continues to be as traversed as it is exploratory.

Finding that their ethos is not fixed to conventions of specialisation in a singular form, but led by a wanting to experience, learn and grow new ideas, in as many places as possible. They strive to find a place that is both childlike in naïvety, and refined in creative sensibility, because we all made this stuff up as we went along anyway, we just haven’t stopped to question that truth. Our funny paradox of contradictions are alive and well.

Born in Launceston, raised in Melbourne and residing in Paris, Dale loves long contemplative walks, reading by la Seine, doom scrolling on social media, refined sugar and the deep confusion of irony.

Original written and appearing on (MILIEU).

Then (AND THEN) explores more of their text, rippling between, two Statements of Intent from 2016 and 2022.

FURTHER WRITING
(to come, à venir)